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	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Ralph E. Flanders: A Featured Biography
		Flanders introduced the resolution that would eventually lead to McCarthy’s censure by the Senate on December 2, 1954.
		Reflecting on this battle, Flanders later wrote, “the conviction grew that something must be done about this, even if I had to do it myself.” During his two-term Senate career, Flanders served on a number of key committees, including Armed Services, Banking, and the Finance Committee.
		Although he had no official college diploma, Flanders received 16 honorary degrees and was an accomplished mechanical engineer and inventor in the field of machine tools from a young age until his death in 1970.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Flanders.htm (168 words)

	Belgium - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In the 12th century Bruges was the capital of the historic region of Flanders.
		Indeed French interference in Flanders, because it threatened the English wool trade, was one of the reasons the English embarked on the Hundred Years' War.
		Meanwhile the remains of the Belgian army were stationed on the extreme left of the Allied front, having withstood severe fighting at the Battle of the Yser.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Belgium (4427 words)

	Encyclopedia: Trench warfare
		The Battle of Alesia or Siege of Alesia was a conflict fought in September 52 BC around the Gallic oppidum of Alesia, a major town centre and hill fort of the Mandubii tribe, situated probably at Chaux-des-Crotenay (Jura).
		The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1â€“3, 1863), fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was the largest battle ever fought in North America, and is generally considered to be the turning point of the American Civil War.
		The Battle of Hill 60 was a British assault that was subsidiary to the Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Trench-warfare (12962 words)

	WW1 Battle in Flanders
		16 - Battle of Yser began when the German 4th Army attacked the Belgian army at Dixmude from the east, broke their line in the middle, and were stopped only when on Oct. 27 the Belgians opened the sea gates at Nieuport and flooded the coastal plain.
		11 - The Battle of Nuns' Wood by the regular troops of the German 6th Army failed, and the attack of the elite Prussian Guard and 1st Foot Guard near Hooge Chateau was stopped by the cooks and servants of the 5th Field Company of Royal Engineers, and this ended the German offensive at Ypres.
		Battle of the Aisne Sep. 14-18 and details from Western Front Association Timeline
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/ww1/1914h.html (752 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Third Battle of Ypres, 1917
		Whereas the first and second battles of Ypres were launched by the Germans in 1914 and 1915 respectively, Third Ypres was intended as Sir Douglas Haig’s Allied forces breakthrough in Flanders in 1917.
		The Third Battle of Ypres was opened by Sir Hubert Gough’s Fifth Army, with 1 Corps of Sir Herbert Plumer’s Second Army joining on its right and a corps of the French First Amy led by Anthoine to its left: a total of twelve divisions.
		This was followed by the Battle of Polygon Wood on 26 September and the Battle of Broodseinde on 4 October.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/ypres3.htm (1470 words)

	The Flanders Offensive, 7 June - 10 November 1917 (Third Ypres, Passchendaele)
		In the summer of 1917, however, as larger forces would be at my disposal, and as, in the Somme battle, our new Armies had proved their ability to overcome the enemy's strongest defences, and had lowered his power of resistance, I considered myself justified in undertaking it.
		Later (his memoirs being written after Haig was dead and unable to defend himself) he said that the battle "with the Somme and Verdun, will always rank as the most gigantic, tenacious, grim, futile and bloody fights ever waged in the history of war".
		A tactical position even worse than that before the battle was now bring held by the British and in April 1918 the whole area taken in 1917 was given up, virtually without a fight.
	www.1914-1918.net /bat20.htm (1424 words)

	Conquest of Norway; battle of Flanders (from World War II) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
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		In the battle, Napoleon smashed the outdated Prussian army inherited from Frederick II the Great, which resulted in the reduction of Prussia to half its former size at the Treaty of Tilsit in...
		One of the two major battles of the American Civil War was fought at the crossroads town of Gettysburg, Pa., from July 1 to 3, 1863.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-210438 (969 words)

	Flanders: History — FactMonster.com
		Flanders was weakened by the departure of its count, Baldwin IX, on the Fourth Crusade, during which he was proclaimed (1204) emperor of
		of Burgundy, succeeded to Flanders on Louis's death (1384) and in 1385 subdued Ghent.
		Austria ceded the remainder of Flanders to France in the Treaty of Campo Formio (1797), but the Congress of Vienna awarded (1815) the former Austrian Flanders to the Netherlands.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0858147.html (896 words)

	flandersnews.be
		The consumption of pills this year should exceed last year's by 200 million, statistics show.
		Traffic levels on Flanders' motorways last year were 4% up on the year before.
		All beaches along the Flemish Coast are once again safe for bathers to enjoy.
	www.flandersnews.be (298 words)

	ipedia.com: List of Belgium-related topics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		East Flanders - Ecolo - Economy of Belgium - Edegem - Eeklo - Elsene / Ixelles - Erpe-Mere - Essen - Etterbeek - Evere - Evergem - Eyskens, Gaston
		Father Damien - Flag of Belgium - Flanders - Flemish Brabant - Foreign relations of Belgium - Fourniret, Michel - Franco-Belgian comics - French Community of Belgium - French fries
		Paris embassy terrorist attack plot - Peer - Pittem - Poirot, Hercule - Politics of Belgium - Politics of Flanders - Poperinge - Putte - Puurs
	www.ipedia.com /list_of_belgium_related_topics.html (620 words)

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